The adventures of Fred Linden, Terry Clark, and their friend
Deerfoot continue in this third and final volume of the Deerfoot
Series, set at the close of the eighteenth century in the
southwestern part of the present state of Missouri.

Edward
Sylvester Ellis was born in Geneva, Ohio,
in 1840. He attended the StateNormal School ofNew Jersey,
and while he was just a boy, he began teaching. He would later
become a school principal and superintendent of schools of
Trenton. In 1860 he published his most successful book, Seth
Jones, or the Captive of the Frontier. Its sudden and
immense success caused him to abandon teaching and pursue
a writing career.

Edward
Ellis specialized in boys’ stories,
inspirational biography, and history for both children and
adults. He was a major author during the “dime novel”
era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century.